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Officially practiced by a large, heterogeneous societies *HINT* The Basic Goal is $$$$$$
What is Pop Culture
100
The most important international organization, created at the end of WWII?
What is the United Nations?
100
A system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning
What is Language?
100
Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
What are the Three main universalizing religions?
100
Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.
What is Ethnicity?
200
Traditionally practiced by small homogeneous groups in isolated rural areas *HINT* Kick The Dane's Head!!
What is Folk Culture?
200
Compared houses in North China
Who is R.W. McColl?
200
A system of written communication
What is Literary Tradition?
200
Large and fundamental division with a religion.
What is a branch?
200
State with the the most power placed in the central government
What is Unitary State?
300
Traits that contribute to evolution Name 2
Isolated Orally or Physically transmitted Multiple hearths Originate independently Environment Cultish "Quaint"
300
In the era of two superpowers. What were the two groups that came out of it? *HINT* United States of American Russia
What are the NATO and Warsaw Pact.
300
A regional variation of a language distinguished by a distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
What are Dialects?
300
Religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated
What is Ethnic Religion?
300
States with a long and narrow shape the best example would be Chile
What is Elongated State?
400
Why is Folk Culture clustered? *HINT* Villages
Isolationism!! Physical surroundings
400
#1 essential contributor to cultural landscape = house *HINT* How to remember him: the "n" and "h" kind of look like homes (the "n" and "h" are below), plus, there are TWO of them…they must, then, be important
Who is Jean Brunhes?
400
Used for official government business, education, and mass communications.
What is Standard Language?
400
1.) There is no god worthy of worship except the one God, the source of all creation, and Muhammad is the messenger of God 2.) Five times daily, a Muslim prays, facing the city of Makkah (Mecca), as a direct link to God 3.) Muslim gives generously to charity, as an act of purification and growth 4.) Muslim fasts during the month of Ramadan, as an act of self-purification 5.) If physically and financially able, a Muslim makes a pilgrimage to Makkah These are represented through which faith?
What is the Islamic Faith?
400
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
What is Centripetal Force?
500
How does pop culture spread? Or why does pop culture spread?
Broadcasting (reach many people) Internet Rapidly Extensively Communication Transportation Colonialism/imperialism *increased leisure time=increased pop culture*
500
After WWI leaders of the victorious countries met at the Versailles Peace conference. Language was a key factor in drawing the lines of new states. Name the chief adviser and or the geographer that made most of the decisions.
Who is Woodrow Wilson? Who is Isaiah Bowman?
500
THE ATLANTIC OCEAN SEPERATES THE TWO DIALECTS!! -Colonies founded before a "proper" English was instated (late 18th Century) -New environment -Animals, Native American words, different progression of technology -claimed it would reduce cultural dependence on England, inspire national pride
What are the differences/why are there differences between American and British English?
500
The places of worship for three main religions.
What are churches, temples, and mosques.
500
Boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
What is Isogloss?